This ReadWriteThink resource focuses on the work of poets Gwendolyn Brooks and Nikki Giovanni, who shared a birthday and were good friends. A classroom....

This WebQuest, from ReadWriteThink, has students explore a variety of poets and their poems and then select a poet whose writing has special meaning for them.....

This unit of seven lessons, from EDSITEment, introduces students to a poet's "voice." Students develop a general definition of voice in poetry,....

In this unit of three lessons, from EDSITEment, students are introduced to the works of Charles Baudelaire, a 19th-century French poet. Baudelaire was the....

Robert Frost is one of the most important American poets of the 20th century. Although he wrote in traditional forms, his language and themes, such as doom or....

This ARTSEDGE Spotlight focuses on the many types of poetry--from poetry of Yeats to the lyric poets of the Harlem Renaissance to modern day poets. This....

Dunning and Stafford, both widely known poets and educators, offer this delightful manual of exercises for beginning....

Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Johnson, was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Angelou is considered one of the finest poets of her generation. In addition, she has....

In this ARTSEDGE "How-To" feature, Theresa Sotto shares tips on how to get and keep young "slam" poets excited about their new work. Sotto....

In this lesson, from EDSITEment, students learn about nonsense poetry as well as the various poetic techniques and devices that poets use. Students study....